The installation shows some hundred of small white paper-handkerchiefes, everyonesimple knot in the taken shape by a middle. The arrangement is formed by straight lines and rows covering the floor, releasing only a small way to pass through. The pretty form of each piece is hidding a cruel content because it was created for the only purpose of catching and killing a special sort of insects, called "kamemushi".
Often found in old country-side houses these insects are spraying a stinky secretion in case of danger or touching. So a special and clean way to remove them from liiving-space is by wrapping them for take away. Every piece of the paper-tissous is handemade marked by a code composed of a system of dating, numbering and locating the catching in reminder to the death of every single one.
So the installation shows a serial extermination of living beings. On one hand it refers to the different systems of controlled political killing in history and the present time, on the other hand also to the non-reflected murdering of little animals in daily life of every people in every household. In a special way there are also reflections about wrapping in the meaning of hidding reality by a beautifying cover.
Often found in old country-side houses these insects are spraying a stinky secretion in case of danger or touching. So a special and clean way to remove them from liiving-space is by wrapping them for take away. Every piece of the paper-tissous is handemade marked by a code composed of a system of dating, numbering and locating the catching in reminder to the death of every single one.
So the installation shows a serial extermination of living beings. On one hand it refers to the different systems of controlled political killing in history and the present time, on the other hand also to the non-reflected murdering of little animals in daily life of every people in every household. In a special way there are also reflections about wrapping in the meaning of hidding reality by a beautifying cover.
1996, Kamemushi